Second: What is Transparent Secure Memory Encryption?
Defense against physical attacks (e.g. stealing memory data through PCIe interface).
Protection against cold boot attacks (extracting unencrypted sensitive information from memory).
What’s the use case here for a normal user?
Somebody must physically try to read your RAM while you sit next to your PC and if this is the case your entire on-site security is already completely compromised.
Also encrypting RAM the entire time - even though you totally don’t need it - will likely cause a performance impact.
And to top it all off that feature was NEVER official supported in AMD consumer CPUs.
Can someone explain how this is supposed to be AMDs fault?
It does cause a performance impact. I have it disabled for that reason. (2%-3%overhead for benchmarking when chasing high scores). Not something you’d notice during normal use.
Smells like click/rage-bait.
At first: A single user complained.
Second: What is Transparent Secure Memory Encryption?
What’s the use case here for a normal user? Somebody must physically try to read your RAM while you sit next to your PC and if this is the case your entire on-site security is already completely compromised.
Also encrypting RAM the entire time - even though you totally don’t need it - will likely cause a performance impact.
And to top it all off that feature was NEVER official supported in AMD consumer CPUs.
Can someone explain how this is supposed to be AMDs fault?
It does cause a performance impact. I have it disabled for that reason. (2%-3%overhead for benchmarking when chasing high scores). Not something you’d notice during normal use.
Physical security is shit. If you rely on this you will eventually get stolen